Shields has better MMA BJJ than Maia

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People always say that even though fighter X has better wrestling credentials/pure wrestling, fighter Y has better MMA wrestling.

Well then can't the same be said here? Maia has better grappling credentials/pure BJJ than Shields but Shields has better MMA grappling.

p.s, title should read "MMA grappling", made a mistake and wrote "MMA BJJ". If mods can change it I would appreciate it.
 
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OMG, we go from one extreme to the other. Up until the Maia fight Shields could do no good. Sherdog was predicting even a Maia sub. And now, after winning a razor-thin decision, Shields has better MMA grappling?

Shields has always been a good bjj specialist. Last event showed Maia and Shields are pretty equal. That's it.
 
haha why dont people say this before the fight - people look backward to the last fight and thats all they know, it seems
 
Jake's grappling has always been great. He was the better grappler last night. I think that's all you can really say about it.
 
Meh, he really did almost nothing from that top position.

I rarely said that, be he really just stalled out there, no damage done and no potential of doing any damage 'theoretically' which what dominant positions are about....

Maia was also underwhelming, but he had caught better positions - mount, back sprawl, etc. few times.

Close fight, in general, and sadly somehow uneventful.
 
Another lackluster fight that leaves me scratching my head wondering where the "good times" in MMA went.
 
I am far from a hard core fan, but had seen both fight, and if I new that this fight was a coin flip then 90% of sherdoggers should have known it also. it was like watching a doppelganger fight, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.
 
I would give the spilt decision to Maia. They performed similarly on the ground, but Maia was sharper with his jabs.
 
No, he just is better at holding someone down and working for passes that he barely hits. Maia has 9 subs in 18 wins, Shields has 10 in 29.
 
DarthChen731 said:
No, he just is better at holding someone down and working for passes that he barely hits. Maia has 9 subs in 18 wins, Shields has 10 in 29.
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This.

I would cut my nut off if Shields could hit a mounted triangle on Ed Herman.
 
DarthChen731 said:
No, he just is better at holding someone down and working for passes that he barely hits. Maia has 9 subs in 18 wins, Shields has 10 in 29.
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Seemed to get a good amount of guard passes last night against Mr. Super Jiu-Jitsu that everybody is so high about.
 
Did Shields ever get even one dominant position the entire fight?

IMO Maia won rounds 1,4, and 5.
 
No one dominated that fight. Very close one. Bjj points showed Maia held more dominant positions (back mount multiple times) while shields landed on top in guard for longer time periods, earning rounds in the match.
 
Jawth said:
Did Shields ever get even one dominant position the entire fight?

IMO Maia won rounds 1,4, and 5.
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did maia get even one dominant position the entire fight?

In most expert opinions Shields won or it was a draw. Maia didn't do nothing.
 
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